Dominika Cibulková

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Dominika Cibulková
Country	Slovakia
Residence	Bratislava, Slovakia
Date of birth	May 6, 1989 (1989-05-06) (age 19)
Place of birth	Piešťany, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Weight	55 kg (120 lb)
Turned pro	2005
Plays	Right
Career prize money	$740,180
Singles
Career record:	122–70
Career titles:	0 WTA, 2 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 19 (11 August, 2008)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	1R (2008)
French Open	3R (2007, 2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
US Open	3R (2008)
Doubles
Career record:	9–18
Career titles:	0 WTA, 0 ITF
Highest ranking:	No. 125 (29 September, 2008)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open	-
French Open	1R (2008)
Wimbledon	1R (2008)
US Open	1R (2007)
Infobox last updated on: October 13, 2008.

Dominika Cibulková (born May 6, 1989 in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia^[1]) is a Slovak professional tennis player. Her career-high ranking of World No. 19 was achieved on August 11, 2008. She is also a former World No. 3 at the junior level, achieving that ranking in May 2005.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 2005-2006 1.2 2007 1.3 2008 1.4 Fed Cup 2 WTA Tour and ITF Circuit titles (2) 3 WTA Tour runner-ups (2) 4 Performance timelines 4.1 Singles performance timeline 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Career

Cibulková began playing tennis between the ages of seven and nine^[2] and grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia. She can speak both Slovak and English.

She lists clay and hard as her favourite surfaces, and has thus far proved to be most proficient on a hard surface.^[3] She has named Kim Clijsters as the player she admires most. She became a professional tennis player in 2005, after having played one ITF event in Prague at the end of 2004.

[edit] 2005-2006

Cibulková competed predominantly on the ITF circuit at this time, and managed to win two tournaments: the Amarante, Portugal event in 2005, and the Bratislava event in 2006, where she was cheered on by the home crowd.

[edit] 2007

At the 2007 French Open she qualified and made her Grand Slam main draw debut, reaching the third round. In the second round she upset the No. 32 seed Martina Muller 6–3, 6–2 after beating Tiantian Sun 6–4, 6–4. She eventually lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova. She has also reached the third round in Amelia Island, beating Anabel Medina Garrigues but losing to her countrywoman Daniela Hantuchova and the quarterfinals of the ECM Prague Open, beating Gisela Dulko before falling to Victoria Azarenka.^[4]

Cibulková's best finish of the year came in September, when she exited at the semi-final stage at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in China. She lost to eventual champion Virginie Razzano 3–6, 6–1, 6–1.

[edit] 2008

Cibulková's first tournament of the year was the Tier III Mondial Australian Women's Hardcourts in Gold Coast, Australia, where she lost in the quarterfinals to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 6–1, 3–6, 6–3. The following week, Cibulková won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the Tier II Medibank International in Sydney, where she lost in the first round to Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3–6, 6–1, 7–6(6). At the Australian Open, Cibulková lost in the first round to Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6–4, 5–7, 6–4.

Playing for Slovakia in the first round of Fed Cup against the Czech Republic in Brno, Cibulková split her two singles matches as her country lost the tie 3–2.

In Paris at the Tier II Open Gaz de France, Cibulková lost in the second round to World No. 9 Marion Bartoli 7–5, 6–1. The following week at the Tier II Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Cibulková again lost in the second round, this time to Li Na 6–4, 6–3.

At the Qatar Total Open, Cibulková reached her first ever Tier I quarterfinal, defeating former World No. 1 Venus Williams in the third round 6–3, 6–3 before losing to sixteenth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in the quarterfinals 6–4, 6–7(1), 6–4.

At the Tier I Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, Cibulková lost in the third round to World No. 3 Svetlana Kuznetsova 6–1, 4–6, 6–3. The following fortnight at the Tier I Sony Ericsson Open in Key Biscayne, Florida, Cibulková lost in the third round to World No. 11 Elena Dementieva 6–0, 6–7(1), 6–4.

In April, Cibulková reached the final of a WTA Tour event for the first time. At the Tier II clay court Bausch & Lomb Championships in Amelia Island, Florida, Cibulková lost in the final to the reigning Australian Open champion Maria Sharapova.

At the Tier I clay court Qatar Telecom German Open in Berlin, Cibulková lost in the first round to fifteenth-seeded Alona Bondarenko 6–4, 1–6, 7–6(9).

Cibulková was seeded 30th in singles at Wimbledon but lost in the first round to unseeded wildcard Zheng Jie of China 6–4, 6–3. In doubles, Cibulková partnered with Alisa Kleybanova of Russia and lost in the first round to Sorana Cirstea and Monica Niculescu of Romania 6–1, retired.

At the Tier I Rogers Cup in Montreal, Cibulková defeated fifth-seeded Dementieva in the second round and Nadia Petrova in the third round. In the quarterfinals, Cibulková defeated second-seeded Jelena Jankovic 7–5, 6–2 and delayed her replacement of Ana Ivanovic as World No. 1. Cibulková then defeated tenth-seeded Bartoli in the semifinals 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 but lost to seventh-seeded Dinara Safina in the final.

She is reported to be dating French tennis player Gael Monfils [2]</ref>

[edit] Fed Cup

She has played in the Fed Cup for the Slovak Republic four years in a row from 2005 to 2008, holding a 5–9 win-loss record in both singles and doubles matches.^[5]

[edit] WTA Tour and ITF Circuit titles (2)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tour Championships (0)

Tier I Event (0)

Tier II Event (0)

Tier III Event (0)

Tier IV-V Event (0)

ITF Event (2)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	August 28, 2005	Amarante, Portugal	Hard	Paula Fondevila Castro	6-0, 6-2
2.	October 29, 2006	Bratislava, Slovakia	Hard (I)	Kristina Barrois	7-5, 6–1

[edit] WTA Tour runner-ups (2)

Legend (Singles)

Grand Slam (0)

Tour Championships (0)

Tier I Event (1)

Tier II Event (1)

Tier III Event (0)

Tier IV-V Event (0)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	April 13, 2008	Amelia Island, U.S.	Clay	Maria Sharapova	7–6(7), 6–3
2.	August 3, 2008	Montreal, Canada	Hard	Dinara Safina	6–2, 6–1

[edit] Performance timelines

[edit] Singles performance timeline

To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.

Terms to know
SR	the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played	W-L	player's Win-Loss record
Performance Table Legend
NH	tournament not held in that calendar year (usually Olympics)	A	did not participate in the tournament
LQ	lost in qualifying draw	#R	lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = Round Robin)
QF	advanced to but not past the quarterfinals	SF	advanced to but not past the semifinals
F	advanced to the finals, tournament runner-up	W	won the tournament

To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament when the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Tournament	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Career win-loss
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open	A	A	A	LQ	1R	0-2
French Open	A	A	A	3R1	3R	7-2
Wimbledon	A	A	A	LQ	1R	0-2
US Open	A	A	A	2R	3R	3-2
Grand Slam win-loss	0-0	0-0	0-0	6-4	4-4	10-8
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	A	Not Held			3R	2-1
Year-End Championship
WTA Tour Championships	A	A	A	A		0-0
Current WTA Tier I tournaments
Doha	Not Tier I				QF	3-1
Indian Wells	A	A	A	A	3R	1-1
Miami	A	A	A	1R	3R	2-2
Charleston	A	A	A	1R2	1R	2-2
Berlin	A	A	A	A	1R	0-1
Rome	A	A	A	A	2R	1-1
Toronto/Montréal	A	A	A	2R2	F	8-2
Tokyo	A	A	A	A	2R	1-1
Moscow	A	A	A	A	QF	2-1
Former WTA Tier I Tournaments
Zurich	A	A	A	A	Not Tier I	0-0
San Diego	A	A	A	A	Not Held	0-0
Tournaments played	1	7	13	23	22	66
Finals reached	0	2	4	0	2	8
Tournaments won	0	1	1	0	0	2
Overall win-loss	1-1	16-7	31-11	35-25	35-23	118-67
Year-end ranking	None	555	156	51		N/A

¹ Cibulkova won three qualifying matches to reach the main draw.

² Cibulkova won two qualifying matches to reach the main draw.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Dominika Cibulková Official site
• Dominika Cibulková profile on the WTA Tour's official website
• Dominika Cibulková at the International Tennis Federation
• Dominika Cibulková at the Fed Cup